Summary
Jeff Dillon is a seasoned engineering leader with over two decades of experience building cloud-native platforms, developer tooling, and high-scale advertising systems. He’s driven large migrations and developer experience initiatives—most recently enabling capabilities for 80,000+ AWS engineers and now directing Shopify’s advertising engineering to align technical execution with revenue goals. Jeff blends infrastructure, SRE, and product sensibilities to deliver resilient, automated systems (notably leading Wayfair’s global Kubernetes and hybrid cloud efforts and presenting the work at HashiCorp). He’s skilled at turning legacy stacks into modern, cost-effective platforms while fostering cross-functional partnerships with product, data science, and third-party ad partners. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic strategist who scales teams and tooling to produce measurable business impact.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer